Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Obama: Education key to economic success (AP)

Obama: Education key to economic success (AP)

Obama: Education key to economic success (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 10:55 AM PDT

President Barack Obama meets with Andy and Etta Cavalier at their home in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, before holding a backyard discussion with families and neighbors in the area. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - Determined to energize dispirited Democrats, President Barack Obama told New Mexico voters on Tuesday that Republicans would reverse the progress he's made on education reform and student aid.

Drenched Mexico hillside collapses; at least 7 die (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:14 PM PDT

Map locates site of hillside collapse in rural MexicoAP - A hillside collapsed on hundreds of sleeping residents Tuesday in a rural Mexican community drenched for days by two major storms, killing at least seven and leaving at least 100 missing, disaster officials said.

Carter sickened on plane, rests at Ohio hospital (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:03 PM PDT

FILE - In an Aug. 31, 2010 file photo, former President Jimmy Carter leaves the State Department in Washington. An airport spokeswoman in Cleveland says former President Jimmy Carter has been hospitalized. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)AP - Former President Jimmy Carter, on a trip promoting his new book, developed an upset stomach on a flight to Cleveland on Tuesday and was taken to a hospital, officials said.

Sour economic mood in living room and boardroom (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:32 PM PDT

In this Sept. 21, 2010 photo, two unemployed men await interviews at an employment center in San Jose, Calif. Americans' view of the economy turned grimmer in September amid escalating job worries, falling to the lowest point since February. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - Americans in both the living room and the boardroom are growing more fearful about the economy, creating a Catch-22 for the job market: Shoppers won't spend until they feel more secure, and business won't hire until people start spending.

Police: UT Austin gunman was student, acted alone (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:08 PM PDT

Police use a K-9 to search the University of Texas campus after a gunman opened fire then killed himself inside a library, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 in Austin. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - A man wearing a ski mask opened fire with an AK-47 inside a University of Texas library Tuesday morning, then fatally shot himself, police said.

AP IMPACT: Haiti still waiting for pledged US aid (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:11 PM PDT

Antoine Fesnell, right, prays as his daughters Nicole, 9, center, and Antoine, 6, look on during mass in the rubble of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday Sept. 26, 2010. Fesnell's wife died in the magnitude-7 earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010 and killed a government-estimated 300,000 people and left millions homeless. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Nearly nine months after the earthquake, more than a million Haitians still live on the streets between piles of rubble. One reason: Not a cent of the $1.15 billion the U.S. promised for rebuilding has arrived.

NKorea: Kim Jong Il's son named to political post (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:44 PM PDT

A South Korean watches a TV screen showing a picture of Kim Jong-Un -- the youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il -- at a railway station in Seoul.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)AP - North Korea's official news agency says leader Kim Jong Il's son has been named to the Central Military Commission of the ruling Workers' Party.

Survey: Americans don't know much about religion (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:42 PM PDT

U.S. soldier E4 Garrett Bennet of Colorado Springs, Colorado reaches for his bible during a customs inspection at Camp Virginia in Kuwait, before his flight back to the U.S. August 31, 2010. The last of the Stryker Brigade Combat Team based in Iraq are currently waiting for clearance of their bags and personal possessions before flying out from Kuwait back to their home base in the U.S. REUTERS/Stephanie McGehee (KUWAIT - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY RELIGION)AP - A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.

Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper up for Rock Hall of Fame (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 07:51 AM PDT

FILE - In this June 7, 2010 file photo, U.S rock band Bon Jovi, from left, guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, lead singer Jon Bon Jovi and drummer Tico Torres pose during a photocall at the start of their show in east London. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, file)AP - It could be a blaze of glory for Bon Jovi at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

NFL, union discuss 18-game season, rookie wages (AP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:15 PM PDT

AP - The NFL and its players' union have talked about a change to an 18-game regular season at a bargaining session.

Poll gives former Bush official big lead in Ohio (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 11:57 AM PDT

Former U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman smiles during a news conference at the U.S. embassy in Geneva July, 29, 2005. REUTERS/Denis BalibouseReuters - Republican Rob Portman, a senior official under former President George W. Bush, has opened a commanding 13-point lead over his Democratic rival in a Senate race in Ohio, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Tuesday said.

Corrected: North Korea leader son takes key party post: report (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:56 PM PDT

Reuters - (Corrects to show husband of Kim Jong-il's sister received post, paragraph 3)

Landslide buries hundreds of homes in Mexico (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 10:27 AM PDT

Up to 1,000 people were feared dead after a hillside collapsed on Tuesday in southern Mexico.(AFP/Graphics)Reuters - A landslide buried hundreds of homes in a poor, remote area of southwestern Mexico early Tuesday, possibly killing dozens of people while they slept.

Gunman shoots himself at University of Texas (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:13 PM PDT

Soldiers prepare to enter Calhoun Hall at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas on Tuesday Sept. 28, 2010. A gunman opened fire Tuesday inside the Perry-Castaneda Library then fatally shot himself, and police are searching for a possible second suspect, university police said. (AP Photo/The Daily Texan, Tamir Kalifa) MANDATORY CREDITReuters - A lone gunman killed himself with an AK-47 assault rifle in the University of Texas library on Tuesday, prompting a campus lockdown and a search for a second suspect before authorities gave the "all clear."

Medvedev fires defiant Moscow mayor (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:11 PM PDT

Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov attends a ceremony to start the construction of a new section of the city underground railway in the capital Moscow, September 18, 2010. REUTERS/Denis SinyakovReuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday abruptly sacked veteran Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, a powerful political opponent who criticized the Kremlin and then defied pressure to resign.

Obama hits the road in hopes of firing up voters (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:05 PM PDT

President Barack Obama departs Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington for New Mexico, September 27, 2010. REUTERS/Larry DowningReuters - President Barack Obama worked to portray Republicans on Tuesday as catering to millionaires over the middle class to try to energize young voters ahead of November 2 congressional elections.

Israel stops Jewish activist yacht on way to Gaza (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:20 PM PDT

A Gaza-bound yacht carrying activists (front L) is escorted by an Israeli naval boat (front R) into the port of Ashdod September 28, 2010. REUTERS/Nir EliasReuters - The Israeli navy boarded a yacht in the Mediterranean on Tuesday to prevent 10 Jewish activists sailing to Gaza to protest against Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory.

Former President Carter treated in hospital (Reuters)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 11:52 AM PDT

In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center left, poses with American Aijalon Gomes, center right, at Pyongyang airport, North Korea, on Friday Aug. 27, 2010. A smile flickered across Aijalon Gomes' face as he hugged former U.S. President Carter and boarded a plane for Boston on Friday, seven months after his arrest in North Korea. Carter flew to the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, this week on a private mission to secure a pardon for the 31-year-old American. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yao Ximeng) ** NO SALES **Reuters - Former President Jimmy Carter was rushed to hospital on Tuesday after developing an upset stomach during a flight to Cleveland but should continue his book-signing tour this week, the Carter Center said.

US envoy in Mideast as Abbas warns Israel over settlements (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:26 PM PDT

Israeli settlers ride on a horse cart along al-Shuhada street, past shuttered Palestinian owned shops daubed with the Jewish Star of David, in the West Bank town of Hebron. US envoy George Mitchell arrived in the Middle East on Tuesday to try to rescue peace talks as Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Israel would be to blame if negotiations collapsed over settlements.(AFP/Hazem Bader)AFP - US envoy George Mitchell arrived in the Middle East on Tuesday to try to save peace talks as Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said Israel would be to blame if negotiations collapsed over settlements.

N.Korea's heir apparent gets senior party posts: state media (AFP)

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:05 PM PDT

South Korean soldiers watch a public TV screen showing what is believed to be the picture of Kim Jong-Un, the youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, at a railway station in Seoul. The youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has been given senior posts in the ruling communist party, state media said Wednesday, in apparent confirmation he is the heir apparent to his father.(AFP/Jung Yeon-Je)AFP - The youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has been given senior posts in the ruling communist party, state media said Wednesday, confirming his status as heir apparent to his ailing father.
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